Workstation-Based Real-Time Mesoscale Modeling Designed for Weather Support to Operations at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Station

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 653-672

  Manobianco, John ^a,c   Zack, John W ^b   Taylor, Gregory E ^a,c  

^a ENSCO INC   (United States)

^b MESO Inc   (United States)

^c KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATION SYSTEM; MASS; MESOSCALE MODELLING; SEA BREEZE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

USA, FLORIDA, CAPE CANAVERAL;

EID: 0030453326     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0653:WBRTMM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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